Try this instead -- New Yorker interview with a fortune cookie writer (from last year):
At first, the writing came easily. Finding inspiration in sources ranging from the I Ching to the Post, Lau cranked out three or four maxims a day, between scrutinizing spreadsheets and monitoring the company’s inventory of chow mein. “I’d be on the subway and look up at the signs and think, Hey, that would make a great fortune,” he said. (One such adage: “Beware of odors from unfamiliar sources.”)
Why bottled water is bad, evidently written by someone who's not tasted the water around here.
hair appt. and mani/pedi are booked.
Doing things like this doesn't seem like effort to me. My day will look like this:
10am wake up
11:30 leave the house (read on subway)
12:45 hair appt.
2:00 lunch at diner then subway downtown
3:00 mani/pedi
5:00 go see Capote (just decided)
7:00 meet brother
The longest I have to walk is an avenue and a half, and most of the day will be sitting and relaxing.
How on early do you open a two-liter of pop that refuses to budge when confronted with pliers?
Sounds like a perfect day, Msbelle!
How on early do you open a two-liter of pop that refuses to budge when confronted with pliers?
Shake and heat it until it explodes. Not saying this is the best method.
Shake it up, then shoot it with a pellet gun.
Cut off the neck with a samurai sword.
Mess, but you get points for style.